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Rebecca Parks
Teaching Today's Teachers
Rebecca A. Parks is currently the Director of Consulting and Operations at Teaching Today's Teachers, a private education consulting firm founded in 2014. In this role, Dr. Parks provides leadership and research-based best practices, professional development, and guidance to partners in K-12 education. Rebecca is also a Fellow with the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute conducting extensive research focused on professional learning trends and practices in the K-12 public learning environment. Previously, Dr. Parks joined the New Learning Models team in iNACOL for several research projects designed to advance the field of K-12 online and blended learning. As a past full-time visiting professor at Elmira College, Rebecca taught various content courses to pre-service teachers in childhood education and developed a comprehensive student teaching experience in Amsterdam, Netherlands for selected students. In addition, she has over a decade of practitioner experience at the elementary grades teaching in the brick and mortar setting. Dr. Parks holds a Ph.D. in Education with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction from Capella University and has strong research interests in new and emerging learning models and professional development in K-12 education.
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Personalize Your Professional Learning...REALLY!
Rebecca Parks, Ph.D.
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) p. 850
Online and blended education in the K-12 environment has grown considerably throughout the past two decades. This surge in digital learning has called for an additional set of pedagogical and practical applications for educators in these new...
Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Assessment and E-Folios, K-12 Online Learning
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Professional Development in K-12 Online and Blended Learning: Examining Programs and Pedagogy for Effective Teacher Training
Rebecca A. Parks; Wendy Oliver
Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 2 (Aug 01, 2016) pp. 75–77
Each of these articles investigates a different facet of professional development in K-12 online and blended learning environments, yet each one holds a significant purpose and recognition for deeper research in this field for continued growth and ...
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The Status of Middle and High School Instruction: Examining Professional Development, Social Desirability, and Teacher Readiness for Blended Pedagogy in the Southeastern United States
Rebecca A. Parks; Wendy Oliver; Elaine Carson
Journal of Online Learning Research Vol. 2, No. 2 (Aug 01, 2016) pp. 79–101
Using quantitative methods, the current study addresses the phenomenon of blended learning and the impact of professional development (PD) in blended learning on teacher practice. Two separate but complementary investigations, Oliver’s (2013) focus...
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The Status of Middle and High School Instruction: Examining Professional Development, Social Desirability, and Teacher Readiness for Blended Pedagogy in the Southeastern United States
Rebecca Parks; Wendy Oliver; Elaine Carson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2236–2242
Digital and technological resources have allowed K-12 educators to implement a blended learning approach to their secondary instruction. Research shows that educators desire ongoing PD support in blended learning but the pedagogical understandings...
Topics: Special Education / Assistive Technology, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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K12 Online and Blended Learning: Current Research and Challenges into Implementation and Teacher Education.
Brianne Jackson; Michael Barbour; Rebecca Parks; Kathryn Kennedy
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1634–1637
Blended learning is a growing trend in K12 education (Gemin, Pape, Shaw & Watson, 2015; Watson, Murin, Vashaw, Gemin, & Rapp, 2012), however, research into online, and in particular, blended learning at the P12 level is emerging (Morgan, 2015; Swan, ...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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2016-17 Special Issues of AACE?s Journal of Online Learning Research
Leanna Archambault; Jered Borup; Saro Mohammed; Rebecca Parks
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 632–634
This panel features three special issues from AACE?s Journal of Online Learning Research (JOLR) that have been published during the 2016-17 academic year. During this session, special issue guest editors, including Dr. Jered Borup, Dr. Saro Mohammed,...
Topics: K-12 Online Learning